Liz & Mike,
A student of mine just defended her graduate thesis, also integrating a totally different co-design approach for inspiring the early stages of concept generation phase of the design process: she recruited drama students to perform a conceptual scenario (play) through which body expressions are extracted for inspiring product forms. If such approach hadn't been taken, that creative form of the product wouldn't have been generated to satisfy target groups' needs and wants.
Mohammad
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Subject: Re: research on crowd-sourcing in low-literacy & low-technology context?
Hi Mike,
I am not sure how you have made that conclusion?
I am very familiar with Haihong's work and co-design worked quite well in her research. It worked differently. Some activities that we know to be effective with people in the US/Europe were less successful in China. Haihong modified her process accordingly and adapted the tools and techniques for her participants.
I am working now with another graduate student who is practicing co-design with children in rural Cambodia. Again, co-design is working but the tools and techniques and time frame had to be modified to work within the culture.
LIz Sanders
Associate Professor
Design Department
The Ohio State University
On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Paul Mike Zender wrote:
> One of our graduate students thesis recently addressed co-design in China with interesting results (it didn't work).
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> Thesis available at:
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> http://etd.ohiolink.edu/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1291052568
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> Mike Zender
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> Mike Zender
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> Director, Graduate Program in Design
> University of Cincinnati
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